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Oh, no disagreement. "Practical" really means "practical for math things where you want to guarantee correctness, not just have extremely high confidence". I can't think of any normal use of primes that needs something past what you can do with a bunch of M-R tests.

But we _do_ use a lot of computational power to verify finding particularly interesting primes, etc., so I maintain that it'd be a nice thing to have in our pocket. You never know when you'll find yourself on a deserted island with a powerful computer and need to deterministically prove the primality of a large number. ;)



Of course, if you end up with an incorrect result due to assuming the Riemann hypothesis, you'll get a fields medal anyway...




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